Companies Act 2014

240. (1)
Section 239 does not prohibit a company from entering into an arrangement with a director or
a person connected with a director (whether, in either case, a director of the company
or of its holding company) if—

(a) the value of the arrangement, or

(b) in a case where there are other arrangements entered into by the company with
any director of the company, or any person connected with a director, the value of
the arrangement and the total amount outstanding under those other arrangements, is,
or, as the case may be, is together, less than 10 per cent of the company’s relevant assets.

(2) For the purposes of this section—

(a) a company enters an arrangement with a person if it—

(i) makes a loan or quasi-loan to or enters into a credit transaction as creditor
for that person, or

(ii) enters into a guarantee or provides any security in connection with a loan, quasi-loan
or credit transaction made for that person by any other person,

(b) the amount of a company’s relevant assets shall be determined in accordance with
section 238(2)
; and

(c) there shall not be reckoned any arrangement entered into in accordance with the
Summary Approval Procedure.